The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-07
BILL APPS LETTER,
Defense Of the "Old SOUTH" and RE
Z view Of Professor TilIett's Century
Article. Thinks There is No
Such Thing as the "New
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The "Old South" is not dead by 3
lang shot, and ! am proud oft. Just
let anybody come out with "a fling at
her and her friends come out like
hornets from nest. Professor Til
lett, Of the Vanderbilt university,
has been ventilating his sophomore
opinions in the Century" and be-
,ittleing the grand old gentlemen OF
,he olden time as dependent idlers'
md gentleman idlers," and says
.hey were little more than "overseers
If the blacks.n He asserts that Hall
aur advancement in industry and
prosperity, and education, and liter
ature, and morals, and religion is due
10 the emancipation of the white
llau from his bondage to idlepess,
vhieh is inseparable from the own
egship Of slaves"
don't know who this professor is,
aor where he was born, but the spirit
Of his article is foul Islander upon
,lle old south. He either knew moth
,ug about her or he is just writing
Tor buncombe. Just such u tissue OF
Miuconception and Misrepresentation
was never gotten together-not even
by Cable.
The Christian Advocate, of Nash
vile, seems to bu Intensely diagusted,
spd says;
is It all new? Was there no man
hood until now? Were the great
names that we revered only the
creatures Of fancy-the myths that
eppear in the early history of all
barbarous people? Were Washington
and Jefferson and Madison mere
creatures Of o mythologic age? Were
Jackson, and Clay, and Calhoun, and
Benton, and Macon, and Polk, and
Bell, and stephens, and Crittenden
lhe derai gods of q prehistoric race?
Is it all a delusiQn that Taylor, and
Houston, and Crockett, and Travis,
and Lee, and Jackson, and Sidney
Johnston, and Stuart, and Morgan,
and Forrest belonged to the old south?
Who are the men that now lead the
nsw south, but the men who led the
Old south? Who represent US in the
halls of congress, and who admins
ter state governments? Who run
our railways and factories, and fur
naces, and educational institutions? :?
In word, what is there that is good
In the new south that was not rooted
IN the old south?"
Then the Christian Index takes 1t
up and says:
"We belong to tho new south and
hope TO keep abreast of her in all her
progress In what is good. but we
also belong to the old south and are
proud of her history. We acknowl-
edge cur present as the offspring of
cur past and not of somebody else's
past. What there is good in us is not
Of Puritan origin. The Puritans are
welcome 10 their own glory, but they
shall not appropriate ours. We shall
transmit to our posterity what we
received from our forefathersr~the
history, traditions, character and
blood of the cavalier"
But the most elaborate and admir-
able reply to Professor Tillett comes
from DR.. b. F. Ward in the Missis-
sippi Clarion. 1t is grand, 1t is elo-
quent and convincing. 1t Is worthy
TO be preserved In every scrap-book.
1t swells the heart Of the true south
erner with pride. He reads 1t and
feels good aud reads 1t again. lie
says III the outset that "the professor
Is skirmishing to bring himself with
IN the scope Of the gale which has
recently given such graceful swell
to the sails Of Mr.. Grady, but unfor-
tunately his zeal is not tempered with
the vein Of native loyalty which
tlngles through the eloquenoe OF
deorgia's gifted and popular editor"
he says In his summ ming up for q
period Of o. years, from 1850 to 1853,
the south furnished eight presidents
whose terms covered 81 years, She
furnished fourteen secretaries OF
state, eleven secretaries Of war, thir'
ty-ntne presidents Of the senate
snirty-one speakers Of the house, two
chief 1uotlCAs or 0Peat ominenCe,